What inspired your forum?

**moneymakingmom** · 02-11-2012 12:17 AM

My forum was inspired by the desire to have a common meeting ground where all my friends (from around the world) could come and hang out and talk. That's why it's called 'lounge' cause it's a place where you can relax and just be yourself. Other forums are started for various reasons. For instance, you might want to provide more information on a topic that interests you.

What idea inspired you to start your forum?

**Jordan** · 02-11-2012 02:56 PM

My original forum was inspired much like yours was. The subsequent forums were inspired by the want to expand my network and income online.

**moneymakingmom** · 02-11-2012 04:32 PM

That's cool! I didn't even realize you could monetize a forum when i first started, that was more an after thought when it started taking eight hours a day to run the forum and then i realized it needed to produce money to justify it's existence. lol

I don't put that much time into my forum anymore cause there are sufficient posts.

For me, a general forum is truly a hard thing to manage, cause it's just all over the place with the topics and hard to get members to post in every subforum daily. So most of the subforums look deserted after just a few days.

I'm still in the process of trying to decide whether or not to continue this forum in it's current incarnation (just get lots more new members, assuming that's possible) or revamp and go in a new direction. Or, just start a niche forum from scratch.

**Jordan** · 02-12-2012 09:44 AM

Originally Posted by moneymakingmom

That's cool! I didn't even realize you could monetize a forum when i first started, that was more an after thought when it started taking eight hours a day to run the forum and then i realized it needed to produce money to justify it's existence. lol

LOL, this is identical to me. My first forum I had no idea how I could make money or even that I could. I just did it for fun. After 5 years of spending my time on it, I sold it.

Originally Posted by moneymakingmom

I don't put that much time into my forum anymore cause there are sufficient posts.

For me, a general forum is truly a hard thing to manage, cause it's just all over the place with the topics and hard to get members to post in every subforum daily. So most of the subforums look deserted after just a few days.

I'm still in the process of trying to decide whether or not to continue this forum in it's current incarnation (just get lots more new members, assuming that's possible) or revamp and go in a new direction. Or, just start a niche forum from scratch.

Yeah, I hear you. I say keep it going.

You've done the preliminary work already.

**keith021773** · 02-12-2012 10:26 AM

I got divorced and fought for custody of my kids. I truly knew that my kids would be better with me. I got full custody and I wanted to help inspire other dads too. If they truly thought that their kids would be better off with them, they should do all they could to get custody.

The site now has evolved into dads helping other dads be better parents now.

**tex** · 02-12-2012 11:52 AM

Wow Keith, that is so cool and deep!

Mine was just wanting p have like minded people to communicate with and it seemed like a good way to crowd source the content

**moneymakingmom** · 02-13-2012 12:53 AM

Originally Posted by keith021773

I got divorced and fought for custody of my kids. I truly knew that my kids would be better with me. I got full custody and I wanted to help inspire other dads too. If they truly thought that their kids would be better off with them, they should do all they could to get custody.

The site now has evolved into dads helping other dads be better parents now.

That's a very unique concept for a forum and certainly the unique theme must have contributed to your forum success.

Originally Posted by Jordan

Yeah, I hear you. I say keep it going.

You've done the preliminary work already.

That's cool! Thank you for the advice.

And yes, a lot of work has gone into the forum so far. And, i know it could be a really awesome thriving forum. I've seen other general chat forums that have many many members posting daily and i want mine to be like that. And, for awhile it was, very very busy all the time. But more recently the forum has subsided with activity and i'm trying to figure out why. I just gotta get many many new members one way or another. I think that's the only thing i can do, if i want my forum to survive.